EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hey, I'm playing a Yamaha midi keyboard through my mixer using a GINA audio
card.  I get a slight delay as I play the EXS24.  I press the note on the
keyboard and I hear the note come in slightly late.  I'm sure this is a
common thing but I'm new to midi.  Does anyone know how I can cut down on
that delay?  Is there a way to optimize the settings for the GINA card?
Could it be my keyboard isn't good enough to use as a MIDI controller?
(It's a cheap Yamaha PSR 262)

Thanks,

Joe

Joe wrote:
>Hey, I'm playing a Yamaha midi keyboard through my mixer using a GINA audio
>card.  I get a slight delay as I play the EXS24.  I press the note on the
>keyboard and I hear the note come in slightly late.  I'm sure this is a
>common thing but I'm new to midi.  Does anyone know how I can cut down on
>that delay?  Is there a way to optimize the settings for the GINA card?
>Could it be my keyboard isn't good enough to use as a MIDI controller?
>(It's a cheap Yamaha PSR 262)

No, it's not the keyboard - just latency.
On Mac, you can play the EXS24 through Mac AV and it's instant. I 
don't know if there's an equivalent on PC.
If you use an ASIO driver, you could try tweaking the buffer size and 
other parameters for lower latency.

Regards - Colin

> On Mac, you can play the EXS24 through Mac AV and it's instant. I 
> don't know if there's an equivalent on PC.

No, there is no such thing on the PC. Afaik there is no internal 
standard sounddriver in windows, it all depends on your audio 
hardware. So play around with latency and buffer size settings - if 
this wont do the trick for you, probably nothing will.

regards

monsdrum

It's not exactly instant - there is a low latency there on a mac.

Not being proficient on keys - only using a midi keyboard to trigger drum
loops and phrases - I have not found this a problem. However, when I have
accomplished keys players trying to play through a mac (G3 Powerbook, G3 &
G4 Desktop, & Imac) into logic (to the EXS24, EVP88, ES1) they always
complain about the latency and ask me if I can fix it because it puts them
off.

I can't find the relevant buffer settings anywhere to lower the Mac AV
latency - does anybody have any suggestions?

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> From: Colin Shapiro <musos@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:25:46 +0200
> To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [exs] EXS - latency while playing sampler from MIDI keyboard
> 
> Joe wrote:
>> Hey, I'm playing a Yamaha midi keyboard through my mixer using a GINA audio
>> card.  I get a slight delay as I play the EXS24.  I press the note on the
>> keyboard and I hear the note come in slightly late.  I'm sure this is a
>> common thing but I'm new to midi.  Does anyone know how I can cut down on
>> that delay?  Is there a way to optimize the settings for the GINA card?
>> Could it be my keyboard isn't good enough to use as a MIDI controller?
>> (It's a cheap Yamaha PSR 262)
> 
> No, it's not the keyboard - just latency.
> On Mac, you can play the EXS24 through Mac AV and it's instant. I
> don't know if there's an equivalent on PC.
> If you use an ASIO driver, you could try tweaking the buffer size and
> other parameters for lower latency.
> 
> Regards - Colin
> 
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